Chapter 10 – Skill Master

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[Leore Gallery]

[Two Corrupted Judges Cleared] (Link) [201]

That Middle School Girl Lee Arang cleared it with one healer. I guess the Ryutuber is the healer?

[Crazy. These days, there’s even a challenge to clear Orc Chieftain solo, and now they’re saying they caught the Corrupted Judge with just one healer? LOL]

[How the hell is she Parrying like that?]

ㄴ[It’s illegal modding, you idiot.]

ㄴ[Are <i>you</i> the idiot? Light Jihoon announced that it’s not.]

ㄴ[You believe that? You’re just brainless LOL]

ㄴ[If you don’t believe the General Director, who do you believe? Do you even believe your parents?]

[No, but seriously, just looking at her height, she’s a middle schooler? How is something like that possible?]

[The healer’s skills are insane too. Because of the level adjustment, she probably only had basic heals, but she’s still managing to keep up.]

[Pink Berry? That nickname’s pretty familiar?]

ㄴ[Looking at the Leore Log site, she was actively Raiding until the last expansion pack. Her skills are top tier? She’s got a basic Blue Tag and even a Red Tag.]

[There’s a rumor that Pink Berry is a Queen Bee?]

ㄴ[Really?]

ㄴ[Yeah, they say any Guild with Pink Berry always collapses.]

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After logging into Leore and checking the time, it was still 8 o’clock.

Pink Berry wouldn’t be here for another hour, so I went to the training room in town.

I was planning to check out the skills I got from the 2nd job advancement.

First, the easiest to understand passive, [Sword Mastery], has increased attack power and attack speed.

It’s a simple yet quite attractive skill. It’s a skill that increases basic attack power, and it’s quite good for me since I like attack speed.

I’m definitely going to master this.

And next is the slightly more difficult [Chain Attack].

I loosened up in front of the scarecrow and picked up the Sword of the Corrupted Judge that I got from defeating the Corrupted Judge.

As soon as I thought about using Chain Attack, light appeared on the sword.

Swoosh!

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A completely different damage than when I caught the goblin at level 1 appeared on the scarecrow.

Chain Attack is a pretty tricky skill. One of the reasons is the cooldown. The cooldown of Chain Attack is a whopping 3 seconds.

The funny thing is that every time you successfully attack an enemy with the Chain Attack skill, your attack speed increases by 3% for 3 seconds.

That means…

I put strength in my right hand and lifted it up. The sword was surrounded by a blue light effect indicating the [Chain Attack] skill, just like before.

I put strength in my left foot, which was behind me, kicked off the ground, moved forward, extended my right arm, and swung my sword.

Swoosh!

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A sharp slashing sound spread throughout the training ground. But the blue light surrounding my sword did not disappear.

[Chain Attack] literally means to attack continuously.

Instead of stopping my body after simply swinging the sword once, I moved the sword and body together, using natural wrist movement.

This time, information from the body, not the eyes, comes in: the movement of muscles, the range of motion that the body can handle, the flow of power, and even the Leore system.

I swung the sword in a range where the Chain Attack would barely not be interrupted.

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And then, as I was about to swing the sword again, the blue light disappeared.

“Difficult!”

Attack speed…

I liked it whenever attack speed increased in any game I went to. And that attack speed was mostly a good stat.

It was a stat that created a comfortable combat environment by quickly using skills with long casting times or reducing pre and post-delay.

But in Leore, it’s a slightly burdensome stat.

I definitely know that attack speed is good, but this [Chain Attack] skill is strange.

It wasn’t like a PC RPG where you just shoot arrows faster because your attack speed increased.

I directly swing the sword, take a stance, and decide everything from the attack direction to the timing. In Leore, attack speed is all compensated for.

If you think about it simply, the pre-delay is reduced, the speed at which the sword is swung is increased, and the post-delay is reduced. It seems really good.

The problem is that I have to control it all myself.

Until now, I thought, moved my body to execute, and moved my body. And as the attack was coming to an end, I was thinking about the next action.

The moment I was about to think about the next action, the attack was already over.

So, in that instant when I was about to think about the next action, the Chain Attack ended.

Attack speed increased by 5% with [Sword Mastery] and a total of 11% by attacking twice with [Chain Attack].

It’s not just an 11% increase, but 5%, then 8% after one attack, and then 11% after the next attack.

In other words, you have to control the body that gets faster due to the attack speed increase every time you attack.

“Wow… They said Physical Skill was necessary, but I didn’t think it would be this difficult…”

With each attack, my judgment, mind, and awareness must speed up along with the increasing attack speed.

“Ugh. It feels like it’s going to work, but it doesn’t…”

The attack speed buff of [Chain Attack] can be stacked up to 10 times.

That means you have to adapt to the changing attack speed 10 times.

“This is only practice, practice, practice.”

I decided.

Successfully stacking [Chain Attack] 10 times.

I don’t know how other people who have changed jobs to Swordmaster use [Chain Attack], but I will definitely master this [Chain Attack] physically, not systematically.

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“N-No, I overslept…!”

Lee Hayan looked at her phone with sleepy eyes and jumped up.

10:04

She woke up a whole hour later than the promised time.

Lee Hayan was going to wash up and go to sleep as soon as she got out of Leore, but she couldn’t contain her excitement after watching the video of Lee Arang and herself Raiding the Field Boss.

When she came to her senses, she had already finished editing and uploaded it to her Ryutube. And then her memory cut off.

When she came to her senses, she was sleeping face down on her computer desk, and instinctively checked her phone and confirmed that she had overslept.

She quickly grabbed the Connector that was charging, put it around her neck, and pressed the power button.

Her vision turned black, and she quickly launched Leore in her cute room that she had decorated.

As soon as the background she had logged out of last night came into view, she immediately checked her surroundings. The small and cute Arang was nowhere to be seen.

‘Oh, what do I do…! Friend list!’

She immediately opened the menu and went to the friend list. Next to Lee Arang, who was the only one left on the clean friend list, a green light was on.

‘T-Thank goodness. She’s in the training room.’

Hayan, who arrived at the training room where Lee Arang was to apologize quickly, couldn’t speak to Lee Arang.

Lee Arang was standing there holding the Sword of the Corrupted Judge, which she got from catching the Corrupted Judge, at the same height as her face.

Lee Hayan, who had never seen such a serious face before, screamed inwardly.

‘S-So cute…?’

From Lee Arang’s point of view, it would be a serious and focused expression, but even if her innocent face, which was younger than 15 years old, had a serious expression, it was very cute.

Lee Hayan, who was shouting at Lee Arang’s cuteness, was changed to shock by Lee Arang’s actions.

Lee Arang was attacking the scarecrow with a sword. But the sword had a blue light, and it got faster with each attack, and at some point, she was attacking the scarecrow at the speed of a max level Swordmaster.

A level 30 Swordmaster.

Lee Hayan knows very well what kind of skill Lee Arang is using right now. She has raised other jobs when she was bored, and although she is not at max level as a Swordmaster, she has raised it to level 50.

The most basic skill of a Swordmaster: [Chain Attack].

Lower damage coefficient than other one-handed sword jobs, but the only attack speed buff. At first, I thought it was good, but Swordmaster users who realized that attack speed was a trap stat used [Chain Attack] simply as a 3second 3% attack speed buff.

It is used before skills with long casting times, or most Swordmasters don’t even use it.

But now, a young girl is slashing the scarecrow with unbelievable Physical Skill.

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The damage that rises up with a rustling sound. No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look like level 30 DPS.

If Lee Arang reached the max level, got all the equipment, and went to the Raid, I couldn’t imagine how monstrous the DPS would be.

After a little time, Lee Arang was about to fall over, so she ran over and grabbed her.

“Arang! Are you okay!?”

“Huh? Pink Berry’s here? Is it already 9 o’clock?”

“It’s already 10:30…”

“Oh… 10:30? You should have told me you were here; you made me wait for 1 hour and 30 minutes.”

“No, I woke up at 10 o’clock because I overslept today.”

“Really?”

“Anyway, is your head okay?”

“Huh? Why?”

“Why! You suddenly fell forward! Isn’t it because you played the game for a long time yesterday?”

“I’m fine. I’m fine. I just focused for a long time and felt a little dizzy.”

“Are you really okay? It’s not good to play games for a long time because your body is still young…”

“I’m really okay. I’m super healthy! Let’s go leveling up quickly!”

“Hoo. Okay.”

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[Chain Attack]

After practicing for about 2 hours, I finally succeeded. I continued attacking while maintaining the attack speed buff stacked 10 times.

It’s hard when you first stack it, but once you reach the maximum stack, it’s not difficult because the attack speed is maintained.

There’s no problem except that my brain hurts a little in the process.

The result of all this training was…

Nothing.

That’s because the monster dies after 3 [Chain Attacks]…